Lithuania

 

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Šiauliai Logopedic School

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                Šiauliai Logopedic School is the only school in Lithuania for students having large and very large speech and communication impairments, emotional and behavioural, self-regulation impairments, hardness of hearing and etc… There are 84 pedagogues and 269 students. A school gives a basic education (primary and basic school) for students having special needs. There is a pre-school department where children from 3 to 6 years old having speech and communication, other social development disorders are educated.

School’s vision is a safe, open, constantly improving education institution following humanistic and democratic values in its work.The school warrants accessibility of education, gives qualitative preschool, primary and basic education, constant qualified logopedic help for students having speech and communication disorders, gives a possibility for development of their linguistic expression, forms a public active personality able to integrate and socialize in modern life.
                     Spheres of school’s work priorities:
– Improving of educational process differencing and individualizing it;
– Consolidation of children and students motivation rendering comprehensive special help for a child as for an educating person with his individual strengths and skills.
The aim of School work is to supply requirements of students having speech and communication disorders according to their skills and forces, realizing programmes of primary education, adapted primary education, adapted basic education, special basic education which conform to standards of national background.
              There are 269 students at Šiauliai Logopedic School. More than a half of students arrive from 29 municipalities. The biggest part of students is from risk group families (one of parents’ excesses drinking; they can’t care of children of the lack of social skills, outrage, etc.) All students living in the hostel don’t have possibilities to communicate with their parents, nearest relatives every day. Students of asocial families are left for a long period at school. Children feel cast-off, unwanted and that stimulates their aggression, diffidence, etc. It is comfortable for parents to leave a child for whole year at school, don’t care about his health, feeding, outfit.
Šiauliai Logopedic School is a very active in laocal, national and international projects. Participation in international level starts at 2006.

 

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